Sunday, November 9, 2008

There is a new OCA article. The following is an excerpt:

Pack it Light. Wear it Right. provides educators, parents and students withinformation and tips to prevent backpack-related injury. With these materials,we aim to help parents and students choose, pack, lift and safely carry theirheavy backpacks on a daily basis.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Chiropractic care works on optimizing biomechanical function to give an athlete the best opportunity to achieve a peak performance. This includes focusing on two main areas: muscle function and joint function.

The following is an excerpt of a Canadian Chiropractic Association web page. It contains information of the best foot forward campaign.

Public Outreach

Fact: 80% of Canadians will suffer from back pain in their lifetimes.

The Canadian Chiropractic Association is working hard to reach-out to the public and all healthcare practitioners to create awareness about back pain and the role of chiropractic treatment. Below are links to current television and print materials that bring attention to the subject of back pain.

A recent four-year study in the American Medical Association Journal TheArchives of Internal Medicine, concluded that benefit plan members withChiropractic coverage returned to work faster, had lower claim cost andexperienced fewer interventions such as MRIs compared to plan members withoutchiropractic benefits.

With eighty-eight per cent of Ontario chiropractors reporting that gardening isthe most common source of back and neck pain during the warm weather season, theOntario Chiropractic Association's Plant and Rake Without the Ache publiceducation program is aimed at helping gardeners to avoid the stiff and sorejoints, muscle, neck and back pain that sometimes accompanies work in theyard.The program features tip sheets that outline proper warmup exercises,stretches, lifting techniques and injury prevention strategies in a simple,easy-to-follow format.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

"Did you know that one in every three Canadians over age 65 will fall at leastonce in a year? Best Foot Forward is a new public education program developed bythe Canadian Chiropractic Association to address the issue of debilitating fallsamong older Canadians. It's a grass roots public education program that has thebest qualified health professionals in Canada behind it - Canadianchiropractors! "